Sparseness in functional data analysis 

Real-world evaluation and deployment of wildlife crime prediction models 

Random forests and diffusion flow 

Pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic modeling for genetically polymorphic populations 

Novel multi-stage and CTLS-based model updating methods and real-time neural network-based semiactive model predictive control algorithms 

Novel algorithms for large scale supervised and one class learning 

Stein's method via approximate zero biasing and positive association with applications to combinatorial central limit theorem and statistical physics 

Essays on revenue management with choice modeling 

Parameter estimation to infer injector-producer relationships in oil fields: from hybrid constrained nonlinear optimization to inference in probabilistic graphical model 

A stochastic Markov chain model to describe cancer metastasis 

Learning distributed representations from network data and human navigation 

Predicting and planning against real-world adversaries: an end-to-end pipeline to combat illegal wildlife poachers on a global scale 

Improving machine learning algorithms via efficient data relevance discovery 

Heterogeneous graphs versus multimodal content: modeling, mining, and analysis of social network data 

Bayesian hierarchical and joint modeling of the reversal learning task 

Protecting networks against diffusive attacks: game-theoretic resource allocation for contagion mitigation 

The spread of an epidemic on a dynamically evolving network 

Building better species distribution models with machine learning: assessing the role of covariate scale and tuning in Maxent models 

Towards the efficient and flexible leveraging of distributed memories 

Plant substructuring and real-time simulation using model reduction 

Essays on high-dimensional econometric models 

Addressing uncertainty in Stackelberg games for security: models and algorithms 

Model selection principles and false discovery rate control 

Assessing the transferability of a species distribution model for predicting the distribution of invasive cogongrass in Alabama 

Comprehensive uncertainty quantification in composites manufacturing processes